November Culture Series:
November 21st
Walter L Williams: The Role of Gay and Transgender People for the 21st Century.
Based on research among American Indian Shamans, Native Hawaiians and fieldwork in Thailand about the acceptance of homosexuality and transgenderism among Buddhists, Williams draws on the insights found about ancient religions to suggest a new direction for gay and transgender people in the new era of human existence now dawning.
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Sunday, November 21, 2010
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Greetings !
November is almost upon us and and the holiday season looms ahead. There is much news on the ONE Archives front including ONE Archives finding a permanent home at USC and the beginning of our new "ONE Offs" series so please read on.
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 | ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives Research Collection Finds Permanent Home at the University of Southern California Libraries |
Los Angeles, CA - [October 26, 2010] - ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives, dedicated to preserving the legacy of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) Americans, announced the partnership with the University of Southern California (USC) that will provide a permanent home to its vast collection. ONE Archives has been housed on the grounds of the USC campus for over a decade. Now the collection will become a permanent part of the USC Libraries, ensuring that the collection will remain intact and will receive the highest standards of care. "ONE Archives has always been recognized as the largest gay archive in the world," says Greg Williams, ONE Archives Vice President. "This material was collected, saved and gifted to us by previous generations of LGBT activists, and it is this generation's responsibility to preserve this material and make it accessible."
 | | ONE's Board Signing the USC Agreement |
"We are thrilled to receive this support from USC. It not only helps us continue to preserve our history, it also acknowledges the importance and meaning of our work at ONE Archives," said Board President, Joseph R. Hawkins, Ph.D. "However, it's critical that the community understand we will still rely heavily on their support both for the donation of materials and for financial support for care of the collections." USC will help to safeguard the general preservation of the collection by providing archival supplies, funding for some operational needs and appointing a Head of Collections to oversee the archive. ONE Archives' Board of Directors will continue to fundraise from individuals and granting institutions in order to hire project archivists, conduct a robust acquisitions program, and provide programs for the public. "The USC Libraries will make the ONE Archives collection accessible to future generations of students, scholars and researchers at USC and around the world," said Catherine Quinlan, Dean of the USC Libraries. "The collection will support teaching and research in history, gender studies, anthropology, literary studies and so many other disciplines. I thank the ONE Archives Board of Directors for their confidence in the USC Libraries and for entrusting these unique and valuable materials to our care." The ONE Archives' collection has been used for countless books, articles, television programs and films, including contributions to the Academy Award-winning film MILK. Researchers and others interested in LGBT life and culture are encouraged to visit ONE. Information about ONE and its collection, which will continue in its current location at 909 West Adams Boulevard in Los Angeles, can be found at www.onearchives.org.
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| From ONE Archives Collection:
The personal papers of W. Dorr Legg
are now available for researchers
By Michael Oliveira | |
W. Dorr Legg's papers primarily document his life before the existence of ONE, Inc. The papers include Legg's writings, correspondence, and records from Legg's careers as a landscape designer, professor at Oregon State, and as a Christian Science practitioner. After graduating college simultaneously earning a Bachelor of Music in piano and a Master of Landscape Design degrees, he moved to New York. While he lived in White Plains, New York, 1933-1935, he served on the board of the Church of Christ, Scientist, and chaired the Lecture Committee. He also joined the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA). After he relocated to Oregon as a professor of Landscape Design at Oregon State University, he contributed to the creation of a Christian Science group for the students, a local chapter of the ASLA, a committee to improve the landscaping of the college, and a regular tour of local gardens. He also helped establish a Christian Science Church in Corvallis, Oregon, and became a Christian Science practitioner.
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During World War II, the college's plummeting enrollment and his father's failing health necessitated his return to Michigan. Legg cared for his father and assisted in the management of the family business until his father's death in 1949. Freed from his duty to family, Legg sought a more tolerant environment to live without being harassed for his homosexuality and his relationship with Marvin Edwards, who is African American. He and Edwards relocated to Los Angeles where they enjoyed the more progressive climate and dynamic social life. When Edwards returned east after being unable to find suitable employment, Legg met Merton Bird. Together they formed the Knights of the Clock, an interracial community organization that survived for a few years in the early 1950s. Legg would go onto join the Mattachine Society and become one of the founders of ONE, Inc.
Included in his collection are Legg, Crosby, and Cross family papers and photographs dating back to the mid-nineteenth century along with Legg's and John Nojima's personal photographs. Their photographs document their lives from after they met in 1960 to Legg's death in 1994. |
| | ONE Archives Focuses on History
at Out & Equal Workplace Summit
| A giant diorama "Lavender Los Angeles" depicting Los Angeles LGBT history at the ONE Archives information center provided a fitting backdrop for the 2010 Out & Equal™ Workplace Summit, held this year at the Los Angeles Convention Center. Out & Equal™ is the largest national nonprofit organization dedicated to achieving workplace equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender employees and professionals.
Founded in 1999, Out & Equal™ works toward a vision of workplace equality for all regardless of sexual orientation, gender identity, expression, or characteristics. Although the fear of harassment, professional discrimination, and being fired has always kept LGBT people in the corporate closet, over the past 3 decades a movement to equalize the workplace has changed the experience and expectations of employers and employees alike.
Workplace LGBT affinity groups and companies that have evolved inclusive policies and practices on issues of diversity are archiving their records so that, when the histories of LGBT progress toward equality in the workplace are written, much of the material documenting that evolution will be found at ONE Archives.
Out & Equal's website is at outandequal.org/ .
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| ONE Offs: DROP OUTS
A new feminist and LGBTQ cultural series at ONE Archives | |
Speak-up, listen-up and make some noise at ONE Archives this fall and spring at the University of Southern California (USC). ONE Archives joins Roski School of Fine Arts Master of Fine Arts (MFA) candidate Onya Hogan-Finlay to launch ONE Offs, a new feminist and LGBTQ cultural series.
ONE Offs are free bi-monthly events featuring live presentations by feminist and LGBTQ artists, writers, activists and students. Each session introduces audiences to thematically grouped interdisciplinary projects that seek to expand understandings of the archive. Take part in this dynamic gathering and add your voice to the archives!
ONE Offs will create a forum for creative and professional networking, development and collaboration among USC students, featured guest speakers and the public. As a platform for investing in and investigating our shared histories, ONE Offs provide an opportunity for invited guest speakers and audiences to both expose and be exposed to new projects at the world's largest LGBT research collection.
The first installment "DROP OUTS" asks: What happens when an artist drops out of the art world? What has driven thousands of women to gather at a separatist music festival in Michigan for the past 35 years? How can we interpret the decision of one woman to boycott communication with other women?
For more information visit the Facebook Event Page
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| NEH Matching Funds
| In previous newsletters, ONE Archives shared the exciting news that we've received the largest grant for an LGBT organization from the National Endowment for the Humanities--$272,086.00. The grant requires matching funds, so we must turn to you, our community, for support. ONE Archives relies on the donations of its members for operating funds, which pay for such things as our Office Specialist and the conservation of the art and historic audiovisual materials entrusted to ONE Archives over the years. Any donation you make now will serve as a matching gift and help satisfy the terms of this incredible grant. Please make your donation online today. LGBT history will thank you!
Sincerely,
Joseph R. Hawkins, Ph.D
Anthropology and Gender Studies
University of Southern California
President ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives
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